Etymology

triobolar

T1R1I1O1B3O1L1A1R1

Today it means: Mean; worthless. Full definition →

Late Latin triobolaris ← Latin triobolus ← Ancient Greek τρῐώβολον
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτρῐώβολον
  2. Latin · derived fromtriobolus“a coin worth three oboli”
  3. Late Latin · derived fromtriobolaris
  4. English todaytriobolar

From Late Latin triobolaris, from Latin triobolus (“a coin worth three oboli”), from Ancient Greek τρῐώβολον (trĭṓbolon). Literally, "having the value of three oboli".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.